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p dank t b h kinda glad it's a meme or i never woulda read it

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>>9491873
I wish people on /lit/ actually read this. It's a good read, it's not a hard read. Pretty much beware of spooks.

Anyone know what the quality of Verso Books is like?

Pic related edition is like $60 on Book Depository.

google it fag

start with the genesis

google 'it fag'

Sorry forgot to include it in the original post

heres the stoner review

https://triumphofthenow.com/2014/02/17/review-stoner-by-john-williams/

"Stoner is weak in many places. Women are characterised appallingly, and there is the normalisation of inter-marital rape. This is mentioned but then ignored, forgotten about. To a modern reader, this is a pretty serious offence. Stoner is, other than when raping his wife, incredibly passive, he lets every mediocre event of his mediocre life wash over him. When he seems to find happiness in romance with his lover, he lets it fall apart; when he has arguments with other members of his faculty who later get promoted and stop his career or reputation from developing, he doesn’t move to a different university, he just nods and takes the stasis."
Seriously, look at this fucking retarded opinion.

But the guy actually had the trouble of writing thousands of this reviews, and he enjoyed and read a lot of books that I read, and that i suspect /lit/ has read as well.

Discover for yourselves.

Im finding it hard to express myself, i wish i could just sit any of you guys down with me next to the computer so i could show why this blog is GOLD in a cringy, makes me wanna read more (maybe cause im in asshole as well).

just some tryhard who wants attention so badly he made a blog

who cares

>>9491789
i think i want to know how do i stop being a tryhard

shoudl i just shut my mouth? i think thats a start

but then what

should i even try writing something?

twelve hundred pages of star trek slashfic

>>9491605
>AP Euro
>We play Crusader Kings 2 and Risk entire semester

How hot are the kids?

If you don't like science fiction, or cyberpunk, why would you bother reading the canonical cyberpunk novel?

>>9491595
it sucks dick

>>9491595
It's only important because it was the first inasmuch as it started the cyberpunk craze. Beyond that it's mediocre and other writers have done better things with the cyberpunk genre.

>>9491401
How do I get in that boipussy WOW!

>>9491401
jordan peterson lectures

>>9491406
Already saved them for later actually, I am specifically asking about must read literature for existentialism

It's probably not uncanny at all if you sit down and do the math.

>>9490972

No

>>9490972
Kerouac was 47 but that doesn't matter.

The 27 Club is a myth. It's just a phenomenon of romanticizing talented musicians who died very young after a string of them died in the 70s (Morrison, Hendrix, Joplin). The idea of a 27 Club was then perpetuated after Kurt Cobain's mother said "I told him not to join that stupid club" and Amy Winehouse's death made it here to stay. It's just people romanticizing dying young.

Statistically, more musicians die at age 28 then 27 yet there's no 28 Club. The same shit applies to authors. Famous people die at various ages. It all depends on many factors.

>>9490787
The young boy sat crisscross on the grass, aimlessly uprooting fistfuls of grass and Dandelions. One moment---toss---then repeat.

>>9490787
The pedals flavored the drink with the distinct taste of violets. Combined with the sugar, would they mask the cyanide?

Georgia O'Keefe taught me that a flower is just nature's metaphor for a pussy. I want to fuck a garden, forever.

>>9490774
The epilogue of Crime and Punishment was surprisingly bittersweet, I'm glad Raskolnikov and Sofya got a relatively happy ending

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The ending to this thing aaaaaa

>>9490802
Yeah, fuck the ending of this book. Then Oppel goes and refuses to write a sequel, and leaves it "finished." Why couldn't he have just written a happy ending and please his fans? (Which were children, by the way.)

>>9490638
Under the volcano
The big book

>>9490642
Seconding the big book

The Bible

>>9490608
top 3 endings in western lit

love in the time of cholera

borges

eco

calvino

>>9490658
Is Love In the Time of Cholera as good? I've heard mixed things.

didnt read lol

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Capitalism was a mistake

geographical distribution isn't as good as an estimator as you think; most people in the US live in the suburbs, which not differ that much across the country except for the occasional climate (and even though, as most people travel in their vacations it's not hard to imagine the cold of new york or the hot summers in louisiana). you should check the nyt best sellers list, even though you'll probably find young adult is the biggest demography.

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>>9490446
Start with the Iliad. Then carry on from there with the greeks. After you're comfortable with them, read whatever you like. I can post a pic of lit's top 100 list

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>>9490446
If you want to narrow it down further, you cannot go wrong with anything that's sub 30.

>>9490460
>>9490477

Thanks but am I going to be able to understand this stuff? I only have a high school education and that "start with the Greeks" stuff looks difficult and maybe a bit boring at my level. I want to read stuff I will understand and learn from not just remember and parrot.

Patrician writing doesn't even feel like someone wrote it.

>>9490375
Could you develop this, please?

>>9490389
google it fag

>>9490321
Chekhov was a handsome guy

Anyway times have changed man you always need to adapt your language and expressions for the audience of the day. You can not write as a Victorian now anymore than Victorians could write like Milton. People had different priorities and interests in writing back then and complex language has become seen as unimpressive and lacks emotional impact.

>>9490353
This is true, unless you are a visionary whose work is so good that it transcends the tastes of its time and inspires others, sparking a huge shift in what's considered acceptable in contemporary literature.

You probably aren't that, but it's something to aim for.

>>9490353
I just find all the Hemingway style prose to be boring. I don't hate it, but I enjoy complex prose.

Really, though, you're right. It's just one of my peculiarities.